Boom Babies and the Gospel of Choice

About the Book

Who's in the driver's seat of your car, Baby Boomer? Are you driving it, or have you chosen an insurance company, Social Security, or your next-door neighbor to be the driver?

Between young adulthood and middle age, the Baby Boom generation moved from a position of "I make choices" to "Someone makes choices for me." In order to return to the position of "I make choices," it's critical to understand how the process of choosing works. To this end, this book is a consideration of how Boom Babies have changed historically (Section I), as well as what the process of choosing entails.

Personal responsibility, internal and external sites of choice, energy, and instructions for energy, are the four gospels of the choosing process that are described in Section II. Six beatitudes exist for optimizing a choice, and these are the contents of Section III.

Aging Saint Boom Baby (Section IV) considers weighty topics such as time, the meaning of life and death, and how individual choices related to these issues, fit into the broader macrocosmic order. Lastly, the author examines what issues Boom Babies will address through the choosing process as well as how the book evolved (Section V).

Baby Boomers, how do you make and optimize choices? How do your individual choices fit in the big picture? And, what will you choose for your legacy?

About the Author

C. J. R. Simons holds a Ph.D. in Life-Span Developmental Psychology from West Virginia University, with specializations in infant and child development. All of his research and publications have been centered about premature infants, how their development can be optimized, as well as how high-risk infants develop within a family context. He left a tenured position with the Pennsylvania State University (1982-2000), along with a joint appointment to the West Virginia University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics (1980-2000), in order to pursue other interests, one of which is writing. Honors and awards he has received include membership in Phi Beta Kappa, a scholarly excellence award from PSU, a research award from the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses, and a National Perinatal Association research award.